users February 2004

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Nautilus and .dat file type
by Norman Gaywood 22 May '04

22 May '04

This is probably an upstream problem/feature, but anyway here goes. Nautilus thinks that files that have an extension of .dat are mpeg videos. That has got to be wrong. Surely, nautilus should do more that use a file extension to determine file type? Is there a way I can change this behaviour for all users of the system? I came across this problem during a class on the R statistical package. They were all using gnome login sessions and no one could edit their data files from nautilus because it thought they were MPEG videos! -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm(a)turing.une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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midnight commander
by peter peter 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

I'm using midnight commander, it's very good file manager, but now anybody about other file commander for gnome, thanks Peto

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yummir, manage mirror servers in /etc/yum.conf
by Sean Reifschneider 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

I've been working on a program to manage the lists of repositories, and the associated mirror servers in /etc/yum.conf. I call it yummir. It polls a server for information on repositories and their mirrors, and then uses that information to place into /etc/yum.conf. For example, to update yum.conf with the latest set of mirrors: yummir update Or, to add the macromedia flash repository do: yummir add macromedia Currently, I'm only publishing repository information for Fedora. I'm managing the list manually, and will shortly be working on tools that automatically find out if a mirror is up to date and publishes new lists based on that. Only a Fedora ix86 repository list is available, but it should be easy to publish more information. Please check it out and let me know what you think. It's available at: http://www.tummy.com/Software/yummir/ ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/yummir/ Thanks, Sean -- Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. -- T.J. Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff <jafo(a)tummy.com> tummy.com, ltd. - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, Python, SysAdmin

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HD Noise
by Carter J. Castor 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it.

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please recommend a video capture card
by Mick M. 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

Hello list; I am running Fedora Core 1 on an older Athlon K7 650/256MB Nvidia gforce2 mx 400 box. (very nice btw) My daughter is in the USAf stationed in Japan, she haa an athlon XP 3200/512 MB with ATI video and Viewsonic 15" lcd monitor. She runs XP pro. She has a very limited personal storage space and does not have physical room for a TV set. What I want to do is buy her a decent video capture card and a VCR. Then she can watch TV/Video tapes on her computer. As well as run her video camera into it (VHS) - no firewire or usb on the camera. She already has a DVD drive and CDRW on her system. I do not run XP and want to test the hardware and maybe duplicate it on my system before I ship it to her. What video capture card would you recommend? thanks Mick M. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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clearing out /tmp safely
by Matt Hansen 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

Hi guys I would like to clean out my /tmp partition as per the tip at http://fedoranews.org/krishnan/tips/tip014.shtml. However, just one small query. Is there any folders/files in the /tmp directory that shouldn't be deleted? My /tmp currently contains directories such as gconfd-root, kde-root, ksocket-root, lost+found, mcop-root, a number of ssh-*, and files such as crxmlqWMLkc, a number of libGL.la-*, sockets such as mapping-root,..etc. Will all these entries safely be recreated when needed? Just a precautionary measure; I realise it is after all a "temporary" directory! TY -- Matt

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Compaq Armada m700 - XFree86 Problems.
by GianPiero Puccioni 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Hi, I am trying ti install FC1 on a Compaq and I am having troubles with the setup of XFree86. What happens is that when it switches to graphics the three keyboards light flash several times (not always the same, from 4 to 15 times) than X starts, dmesg reports the same amount of "keyboard timed out[1]". It doesn't matter if X starts from inittab, startx or switching from a text console through Alt-F7, it does the same. The XFconfig is the standard one generated by the installation and the keyboard section is the default, I tried changing something here and there but nothing different happens. Plugging in an external keyboard doesn't change anything. In the log file there is nothing about the keyboard beside the usual (the usual being the log of another machine where it works). The same machine did run a previous version of XFree without problems. After this delay everything seem to work but it can be really annoying (it can be up to 40-50 secs) as the owner of this machine frequently uses text consoles. Any thoughts? Thanks, GianPiero -- **************************************************************************** * Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata GianPiero Puccioni * * Largo E.Fermi 6 E-Mail : gip(a)ino.it * * I-50125 Firenze - ITALY Tel +39 055 23081 - Fax +39 055 2337755 * ****************************************************************************

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libxml2mod.so : undefined symbol
by Murali Potla 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

I have problem with redhat-config-packages and yum on my FC1. it looks like it is a problem with the python and libxml2. I have upgraded my box from Red Hat linux 9 to Fedora Core 1. I am getting the following error whenever i launch yum or redhat-config-pcakages import libxml2mod ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlTextReaderIsValid I am unable to use these tools. command line rpm works fine though. Are there any issues reported while upgrading from RHL to fedora ?

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viruses from mailinglist
by Joolz 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Since a week or so I keep getting lots of email from the list with 29K zip attachments. AFAIK these are viruses (Mydoom?). They don't hurt my system, procmail handles them. But wouldn't it be better to filter these out before they get sent to the mailinglist? Thanks! -- 14:53-14:57 Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) Linux 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl

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fd0 problems with fedora
by John Meagher 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

Hello all, I have just started with Fedora and my first installation attempt crashed when I tried to create a boot disk. So the second time I said no to that option and did a mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 after the system came up. Crash again. Rebooted, tried fdformat, crash again. mdir works fine but mcopy crashes the system. If I try to mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy, it tells me fd0 is not a valid block device. ditto if I do it with the gui tool. When the system boots, "Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M" gets written in the log. There's a bug in bugzilla # 102565 which is the first thing you see when you google on fedora fdformat, but it's dated last Aug 18 and there's been no action on it since assignment. There also haven't been any other complaints on this list as far as I can see, so it must be rare. How can I go about troubleshooting this? The captured strace follows. Thanks, John --------------------------------------------------------- [root@lo /]# strace fdformat /dev/fd0 execve("/usr/bin/fdformat", ["fdformat", "/dev/fd0"], [/* 22 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="lo.puxy.com", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x932a000 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=41133, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 41133, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xbf5c6000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@h6\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1575400, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xbf5c5000 old_mmap(0x351000, 1279788, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x351000 old_mmap(0x484000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x132000) = 0x484000 old_mmap(0x487000, 10028, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x487000 close(3) = 0 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xbf5c5760, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xbf5c6000, 41133) = 0 brk(0) = 0x932a000 brk(0x934b000) = 0x934b000 brk(0) = 0x934b000 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=33513072, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xbf3c5000 close(3) = 0 stat64("/dev/fd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(2, 0), ...}) = 0 access("/dev/fd0", W_OK) = 0 open("/dev/fd0", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 ioctl(3, FDGETPRM, 0x804a238) = 0 open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2601, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xbf3c4000 read(4, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2601 read(4, "", 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xbf3c4000, 4096) = 0 open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xbf3c4000 write(1, "Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/"..., 63Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. ) = 63 write(1, "Formatting ... ", 15Formatting ... ) = 15 ioctl(3, FDFMTBEG, 0) = 0 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK, 0xbff7f070) = 0 write(1, " 0\10\10\10", 6) = 6 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK, 0xbff7f070) = 0 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK, 0xbff7f070) = 0 write(1, " 1\10\10\10", 6) = 6 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK, 0xbff7f070) = 0 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK, 0xbff7f070) = 0 write(1, " 2\10\10\10", 6) = 6 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK, 0xbff7f070) = 0 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK, 0xbff7f070) = 0 write(1, " 3\10\10\10", 6) = 6 ioctl(3, FDFMTTRK ----that's all she wrote-----

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